Stuart Sanders
stuart at pacific.net.hk
Wed Mar 12 22:46:00 CST 2003
Another thing you can try is instead of mapping \\OAserver\Oaserver, trying using the ip address of the server. eg \\192.168.0.11\OAserver This bypasses wins/dns and unless they need to browse the network should solve the issue. Another thing to keep in mind is that win9x doesn't handle switching like this very well. Not sure if you are using win2k/xp as you didn't mention it. My main notebook is Win2K, and I often hibernate as opposed to shutdown as it keeps my workspace. Using win2k I can switch from home to work, to clients networks with no issue. Win2K releases the network configuration cleanly in my experience and grabs a new one at whatever site I am at if DHCP is set up. Stuart -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David Emerson Sent: Thursday, 13 March, 2003 10:42 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT - Mapping dialup drive with broadband Aha!. Where do I find those settings so that I can check? David At 12/03/2003, you wrote: Sounds like the broadband connections changed their DNS or WINS settings, so they can't resolve the computer names anymore. Drew -----Original Message----- From: David Emerson [mailto:davide at dalyn.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:59 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com; ACCESS-L at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [AccessD] OT - Mapping dialup drive with broadband Cross post AccessD, AccessL This is slightly related as my users can't synchronise unless we can get them connected :( Previously my users had normal modems and were able to dial into a server and map drives ok. Two of them have connected to broadband lines. Now when they disconnect the broadband connection and use their modems to connect to the server they are able to make a connection but are not able to map drives. The error they get is - "The following error occurred while trying to connect F: to \\OAServer\OAServer The computer or sharename could not be found. Make sure you typed it correctly, and try again." Does anyone know of any issues with broadband (or similar high speed connections) that interfere when going back to normal 56k modems? Regards David Emerson DALYN Software Ltd 25b Cunliffe St, Johnsonville Wellington, New Zealand Ph/Fax (877) 456-1205 Regards David Emerson DALYN Software Ltd 25b Cunliffe St, Johnsonville Wellington, New Zealand Ph/Fax (877) 456-1205 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030312/3a3738b8/attachment-0001.html>